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MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
UNITED NATIONS DAY
2008
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS. the United Nations was founded in 1945, with fifty-one nations. and its UN Charter
caine into force on October 24, 1945, a date commemorated around the world; and
WHEREAS. the United Nations membership has grown to one hundred and niqety-two nations
working for the common good of more· than six billion global citizens; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations is credited with negotiating more than one hundred and seventy
peaceful settlements that ended regional conflicts and enabled people in over forty-five countries to
participate in free and fair democratic elections; and
WHEREAS. the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, winner of the 2005 Nobel
Peace Prize, works through its landmark international Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty to
prevent the spread· of nuclear weapons: and
WHEREAS, the United Nations. working to achieve its eight Millennium Development Goals has
helped raise worldwide immunization rates from five percent to eighty percent; helped make drinking water
safe for more than one billion people; delivered two million tons of food each year to victims of wars and
natural disasters; ini tiated new efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; and
WHEREAS. tbe United Nations Association has Chapters from the moumains to the coast to
celebrate among North Carolinians the value of the work of the United Nations in our world;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
proclaim October 24. 2008, as "UNITED NATIONS DAY" in North Carolina and urge all our citizens to
commend this observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North
Carol ina at the Capitol in Raleigh this third day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
UNITED NATIONS DAY
2008
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS. the United Nations was founded in 1945, with fifty-one nations. and its UN Charter
caine into force on October 24, 1945, a date commemorated around the world; and
WHEREAS. the United Nations membership has grown to one hundred and niqety-two nations
working for the common good of more· than six billion global citizens; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations is credited with negotiating more than one hundred and seventy
peaceful settlements that ended regional conflicts and enabled people in over forty-five countries to
participate in free and fair democratic elections; and
WHEREAS. the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, winner of the 2005 Nobel
Peace Prize, works through its landmark international Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty to
prevent the spread· of nuclear weapons: and
WHEREAS, the United Nations. working to achieve its eight Millennium Development Goals has
helped raise worldwide immunization rates from five percent to eighty percent; helped make drinking water
safe for more than one billion people; delivered two million tons of food each year to victims of wars and
natural disasters; ini tiated new efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; and
WHEREAS. tbe United Nations Association has Chapters from the moumains to the coast to
celebrate among North Carolinians the value of the work of the United Nations in our world;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
proclaim October 24. 2008, as "UNITED NATIONS DAY" in North Carolina and urge all our citizens to
commend this observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North
Carol ina at the Capitol in Raleigh this third day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.